When EVGA opened their office this morning it took only 6 minutes for them to sell out, unfortunately I did not make the cutoff there or Newegg which sold all their stock yesterday before it was even official

Dunnet does not have any stock. Are you aware of the very dubious reputation they have, with more than five bankruptcies and all the changing adresses in the past years? I would not do any business with them. IMO they rank amongst the most criminal and untrustworthy outlets in this market.

I was lucky enough to grab one before they sold out. Since I was originally going to purchase the 580, is the main difference (in terms of post production) between the two just 3x CUDA power?? In regards to AE this would help tremendously right?? But if anyone would have the time time explain any advantages in Premiiere, I would appreciate it. thanks in advance.

Just wondering if the GTX 690 with a single GPU, based on the GK110 and possibly a 384 bit memory bus, would not be much more interesting than this mid-range 680, that is offered for a whopping € 500. The 690 is not a dual GPU design like the 590, but the upgrade from the GK104. Let's not kid ourselves, the 680 is only a mid-level card and more alike the 560 than the 580.

I hope the fuzziness will disappear shortly and we will get some tangible results. For me, I will wait with a decision about a new video card, till the offerings are a lot clearer. I mean, a mid-level card for € 500 loses its attractiveness when you can have a performance level card for € 550.

I look forward to seeing the results from people like Bill, who do not hesitate to shell out large amounts to get the latest and supposedly greatest, even though only mid-level video cards. Time will tell.

If you want an extensive article on the new NVidia line I suggest reading this BSN article. It has made me a little more optimistic about the GTX 680 but next week sometime we will know for sure when I get mine.

you said you ordered one, what exactly did you order ? ... a 2 gb model ? or a 4 gb model ? your post is a bit confusing. I haven't seen

anything about a 4gb out yet, but if that's the case, it's worth the wait to wait I'm guessing. Will you be using this on a new motherboard that

supports the 2011 chip ? ( i7 ) ? and PCI-3 for the card to pull full potential from it ?

I am wondering if going with a 680 is worth it, if I pop it into an older board, somehow I rather doubt it, that new card is pci-3 and my board is pci-2 so

there is a big bottleneck there. Probabally not worth it, and perhaps I'll go with the GTX-580, a saleman told me prices may drop as much as $200 on the

card.

P.S. I bought my GTX-470 about 2 years ago, - cost me $400 at the time, I saw this card for $129 a few weeks ago on a local vendor's site, however when I asked aobut it, they had not had any in stock, and the guy told me they have been discontinued for a LONG time.

However this shows you just how much a card can drop in price, and just how quickly when a new card comes out.

The card is definitely based on two GK104 chips (the same chip was used on the GeForce GTX 680) holding 3072 Cuda Cores (1536 from each core), 256 TMUs, 64 ROPs. It holds 4 Memory chips on either sides of the PCB which equals a memory interface of 256-bit for each core. This means we would see a 4GB VRam on the board.

It is powered by two Eight Pin connector which suggests that the TDP would be somewhere around 300W. Each core has its own 5 Phase VRM.

The card has a single SLI gold finger which means two of the same GPU’s can be coupled together. The GPU is expected to launch in May 2012. Price is gonna be set around $799 US.

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Dave.

Harm Millaard wrote:

Just wondering if the GTX 690 with a single GPU, based on the GK110 and possibly a 384 bit memory bus, would not be much more interesting than this mid-range 680, that is offered for a whopping € 500. The 690 is not a dual GPU design like the 590, but the upgrade from the GK104. Let's not kid ourselves, the 680 is only a mid-level card and more alike the 560 than the 580.

I hope the fuzziness will disappear shortly and we will get some tangible results. For me, I will wait with a decision about a new video card, till the offerings are a lot clearer. I mean, a mid-level card for € 500 loses its attractiveness when you can have a performance level card for € 550.

I look forward to seeing the results from people like Bill, who do not hesitate to shell out large amounts to get the latest and supposedly greatest, even though only mid-level video cards. Time will tell.

David, it evident that you have not been to PPBM5.com where you can see almost 800 real Premiere Pro benchmarks. I have to apologize to Baz that his results are not on the current database driven site, we (actually Harm) developed quite automated way to enter results after he submitted his results. The early results from Studio North can be seen in our older PPBM5 results page.

no, I've neard heard of it, but am looking at it now. I have to say though it's very confusing. It would be good if there was a link to a youtube video describing all these columns on info.

I don't see anywhere a field with "render time" or "elapsed render time" so I have no clue where that info is.

I'm assuming that everyone rendered the same file, and these values were entered on that webiste.... but where ? I just don't see it listed.

What I'm looking for is values of the total time it took to render a file, either in minutes + seconds, or total seconds.

I don't see it, am I blind ?

:-(

Dave.

Bill Gehrke wrote:

David, it evident that you have not been to PPBM5.com where you can see almost 800 real Premiere Pro benchmarks. I have to apologize to Baz that his results are not on the current database driven site, we (actually Harm) developed quite automated way to enter results after he submitted his results. The early results from Studio North can be seen in our older PPBM5 results page.

By the way, that's just 2 websites out of dozens and dozens who have posted this info. Simply Google "GK110" and you'll get a huge list of websites with the info for this new "GTX 685" or whatever

they may call it.

What does this mean for Premiere ? ... I have no clue ? ... any advantage ? ... not sure...... anyway, seems Nvida can't wait to keep popping out new cards. Perhaps for those who have money to spend,

can just buy a 680, sell it a few months later and buy the big brother to the 680, but many of us don't, so this really makes the waters very muddy. IF this new card comes out when planned, and it

speeds up Premiere in ways never thought possible, then it's well worth the wait. I guess in a way, I'm glad they "leaked" this info out, before I bought a 680.

NVIDIA Kepler GK110 Approximate Specs Leaked

The launch of NVIDIA's new range of Kepler-based graphics is almost on top of us, yet details are starting to emerge about the GK104 GPU's big brother, the GK110.

It looks like NVIDIA decided to release the lower performance GK104 GPU as their upcoming top card, the GTX 680, since performance was above what they expected. This GPU would most likely have gone into a GTX 670 otherwise. It also could be due to the very large die size of the GK110 top dog chip, which is surprisingly due for launch as far away as August. The naming for this card has not been revealed, but speculation pegs it as the GTX 685, with the GTX 690 name reserved for the dual GK104 card. Leaked specifications table is below, comparing the GK110 to the GK104 and AMD's HD 7970. Note the brawny 512-bit memory bus.

Going back to GK110, a card built in 28nm process, which will likely have 2304 CUDA cores, may have completely reorganized GPU structure. Streaming multiprocessors may rise to 10 (in comparison to GTX 680). NVIDIA could use 512-bit memory interface on this one. It is rumored that GK110 will consume around 250 Watts. Card should be prepared for August 2012. Naming is not yet revealed, but since GTX 680 is already taken, this card may be called GTX 685 (leaving GTX 690 brand for dual-gk104). It is also possible that NVIDIA will decide to release new GK110 gpu as a card from GeForce 700 series, but this would be a marketing failure as owners of GTX 680 would feel confused – having a graphics card which is a generation old after 5 months.

Baz have you gotten any of my standard emails? I have responded to your PM's via direct email. The only way we can update the database is if you formally submit the data by using the "Submit Results" option on the home page.

Well my GTX 680 arrived earlier than I guessed and with just one or two runs (and a couple of baseline runs with my GTX 480 the GTX 680 appears to be about 10 seconds faster on the PPBM5.5 MPEG2-DVD encoding test on my 5.0 GHz i7-2600K 32 GB RAM machine. I just did not have enough time this morning to pull the GTX 580. Was it worth $500 more, only time will tell but it sure was worth waiting for as my second machine has need an upgrade. More details later.